Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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The gatekeepers are worse than the directors. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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Familiarity breeds contempt. ~English Proverb
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. ~Native American Proverb
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion. ~Chinese Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Love is a sweet tyranny, because the lover endureth his torments willingly. ~Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ~French Proverb
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A heavy purse makes a light heart. ~Irish Proverb
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Every smile makes you a day younger. ~Chinese Proverb
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Haste makes waste. ~Chinese Proverb
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Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies. ~Spanish Proverb
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I know some of you are, thinking, maybe I deserved it. But before you start pointing fingers, let me ask you. Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserved to die? So bad I deserved to die like that? Is what I did really much worse than what anybody else does? Is it really so much worse than what you do? ~Lauren Oliver
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A man with a loud laugh makes truth itself seem folly, truth is great and will win out. ~Irish Proverb
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Promises make debt, and debt makes promises. ~Dutch Proverb
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A busy mother makes slothful daughters. ~Portuguese Proverbs
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